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Chapter 5 Solutions — Glimpses of India

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Step-by-step NCERT solutions for Glimpses of India (Chapter 5, CBSE Class 10 English) — every question and answer worked out in full, not just the final result. You can also read the Glimpses of India textbook chapter.

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All 23 questions in Glimpses of India are solved in the PDF. Here's what's inside, exercise by exercise:

A Baker from Goa — Oral Comprehension Check

What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Is bread-making still popular in Goa? How do you know?
What is the baker called?
When would the baker come everyday? Why did the children run to meet him?
5.
Match the following. What is a must
- (i) as marriage gifts?
- (ii) for a party or a feast?
- (iii) for a daughter's engagement?
- (iv) for Christmas?
6.
What did the bakers wear:
- (i) in the Portuguese days?
- (ii) when the author was young?
Who invites the comment — “he is dressed like a pader”? Why?
Where were the monthly accounts of the baker recorded?
What does a ‘jackfruit-like appearance’ mean?

A Baker from Goa — Thinking about the Text

1.
Which of these statements are correct?
- (i) The pader was an important person in the village in old times.
- (ii) Paders still exist in Goan villages.
- (iii) The paders went away with the Portuguese.
- (iv) The paders continue to wear a single-piece long frock.
- (v) Bread and cakes were an integral part of Goan life in the old days.
- (vi) Traditional bread-baking is still a very profitable business…
Is bread an important part of Goan life? How do you know this?
3.
Tick the right answer. What is the tone of the author when he says the following?
- (i) The thud and the jingle of the traditional baker's bamboo can still be heard in some places. (nostalgic, hopeful, sad)
- (ii) Maybe the father is not alive but the son still carries on the family profession. (nostalgic, hopeful, sad)
- (iii) I still recall the typical fragrance of those loaves. (nostalgic, hopeful…

Coorg — Oral Comprehension Check / Thinking about the Text

Where is Coorg?
What is the story about the Kodavu people's descent?
3.
What are some of the things you now know about
- (i) the people of Coorg?
- (ii) the main crop of Coorg?
- (iii) the sports it offers to tourists?
- (iv) the animals you are likely to see in Coorg?
- (v) its distance from Bangalore, and how to get there?
4.
Here are six sentences with some words in italics. Find phrases from the text that have the same meaning.
- (i) During monsoons it rains so heavily that tourists do not visit Coorg. (para 2)
- (ii) Some people say that Alexander's army moved south along the coast and settled there. (para 3)
- (iii) The Coorg people are always ready to tell stories of their sons' and fathers' valour. (para 4)
- (iv) Even…

Coorg — Thinking about Language (Collocations)

1.
Complete the following phrases from the text. For each phrase, can you find at least one other word that would fit into the blank?
- (i) tales of ___
- (ii) ___ coastal
- (iii) a piece of ___
- (iv) evergreen ___
- (v) ___ plantations
- (vi) ___ bridge
- (vii) wild ___

Tea from Assam — Thinking about Language

1.
Look at these words: upkeep, downpour, undergo, dropout, walk-in. They are built up from a verb (keep, pour, go, drop, walk) and an adverb or a particle (up, down, under, out, in). Use these words appropriately in the sentences below.
- (i) A heavy ___ has been forecast due to low pressure in the Bay of Bengal.
- (ii) Rakesh will ___ major surgery tomorrow morning.
- (iii) My brother is responsible…
2.
Now fill in the blanks in the sentences given below by combining the verb given in brackets with one of the words from the box as appropriate. (over, by, through, out, up, down)
- (i) The Army attempted unsuccessfully to ___ the Government. (throw)
- (ii) Scientists are on the brink of a major ___ in cancer research. (break)
- (iii) The State Government plans to build a ___ for Bhubaneswar to speed up…

Thinking about the Poem — The Trees (Adrienne Rich)

Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest. (ii) What picture do these words create in your mind …
Where are the trees in the poem? What do their roots, their leaves, and their twigs do? (ii) What does the poet compare their branches to?
3.
How does the poet describe the moon:
- (a) at the beginning of the third stanza, and
- (b) at its end? What causes this change?
- (ii) What happens to the house when the trees move out of it?
- (iii) Why do you think the poet does not mention …
4.
Now that you have read the poem in detail, we can begin to ask what the poem might mean. Here are two suggestions. Can you think of others?
- (i) Does the poem present a conflict between man and nature? Compare it with A Tiger in the Zoo. Is the poet suggesting that plants and trees, used for …
- (ii) On the other hand, Adrienne Rich has been known to use trees as a metaphor for human beings; this is a recurrent image in her poetry. What new meanings emerge from the poem if you take its trees to be symbolic of this particular meaning?

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3 questions from Glimpses of India, solved step by step.

A Baker from Goa — Oral Comprehension Check

What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?

The elders in Goa are often heard reminiscing nostalgically about the good old Portuguese days.

They fondly recall the Portuguese rule and their famous loaves of bread, which were a special feature of that time.

Answer: They are nostalgic about the good old Portuguese days and the famous Portuguese loaves of bread.

A Baker from Goa — Thinking about the Text

Is bread an important part of Goan life? How do you know this?

Yes, bread is a very important part of Goan life.

Marriage gifts are meaningless without the sweet bread known as bol, and a party or feast loses its charm without bread. The lady of the house must prepare sandwiches for her daughter's engagement, and cakes and bolinhas are a must for Christmas and other festivals.

Thus the presence of the baker's furnace in the village is absolutely essential, which shows how central bread is to Goan life.

Answer: Yes; bread and its varieties are essential to every Goan celebration — weddings, feasts, engagements and Christmas — so the baker's furnace is indispensable.

Coorg — Oral Comprehension Check / Thinking about the Text

Where is Coorg?

Coorg, or Kodagu, is the smallest district of Karnataka.

It lies midway between Mysore and the coastal town of Mangalore, in a land of rolling hills.

Answer: Coorg (Kodagu) is the smallest district of Karnataka, midway between Mysore and Mangalore.

All 23 questions in Glimpses of India are solved step by step in the Solutions PDF above.

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Chapter 5 Solutions — Glimpses of India

Overview

What these solutions cover

A Baker from Goa — Oral Comprehension Check

A Baker from Goa — Thinking about the Text

Coorg — Oral Comprehension Check / Thinking about the Text

Coorg — Thinking about Language (Collocations)

Tea from Assam — Thinking about Language

Thinking about the Poem — The Trees (Adrienne Rich)

Worked examples

What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?

Is bread an important part of Goan life? How do you know this?

Where is Coorg?

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